Marie Moke-Pleyel
Marie Félicité Denise Moke-Pleyel , b. Marie Moke (born September 14, 1811 in Paris , † March 30, 1875 in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode near Brussels ) was a French - Belgian pianist .
Life
Marie Moke-Pleyel's father came from Belgium and was a professor of linguistics in Paris. Her mother was German. She began playing the piano at the age of four and received lessons from important pianists such as Ignaz Moscheles , Henri Herz and Friedrich Kalkbrenner . She gave her first concert at the age of 12.
In 1830 she met Hector Berlioz in a girls' boarding school, where she worked as a piano teacher and Berlioz as a guitar teacher. This love affair ended a year later while Berlioz was in Rome on a scholarship. In 1831 she married Camille Pleyel , the son of the composer and piano manufacturer Ignaz Josef Pleyel . Camille Pleyel was 22 years older than Marie, also a pianist and a wealthy piano manufacturer. The marriage had two children, Henri (1832-1853) and Louise (1833-1856), who both died early. As early as 1835, Camille Pleyel filed for divorce for infidelity.
She was the hostess of Frédéric Chopin's stay in Paris in 1833 . The composer dedicated his Three Nocturnes op.9 to her .
After that, her real career as a concert pianist began. In the years 1838 to 1874 she traveled to many European cities, such as St. Petersburg , Leipzig , Dresden , Vienna , Brussels , Paris , Bonn , London . She celebrated triumphs on her concert tours and was considered the most important pianist of her time. In 1848 Marie Pleyel was appointed professor of piano by François-Joseph Fétis at the Brussels Conservatory, a position she held until 1872.
Her private life was quite eventful. She had countless admirers and many friends such as Daniel-François-Esprit Auber , Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy , Frédéric Chopin , Robert Schumann , Ferdinand Hiller , Gérard Labrunie , Alfred de Musset , Alexandre Dumas , Jules Janin , Eugène Delacroix , Adolphe Yvon etc.
She died on March 30, 1875 in Brussels and was buried on the Cimetière de Laeken in Laken , a district in the north of the Belgian capital.
In a review Schumann said of her: "There is more poetry in her than in ten Thalbergs ."
literature
- Jean-Jacques Eigeldinger: Chopin and Pleyel in Early Music (2001) XXIX (3), 389–398
- Christoph Kammertöns : Pleyel (family) , in: The music in past and present, person part vol. 13, ed. by Ludwig Finscher. Bärenreiter, Kassel u. a. 2005, col. 689-694. ISBN 3-76181133-0
Web links
- Marie-Félicité Moke-Pleyel (French)
- Jenny Kip, More poetry than in ten Thalbergs (Die Pianistin Marie Pleyel (1811-1875)), series of the Sophie Drinker Institute, Volume 7, edited by Freia Hoffmann, BIS-Verlag der Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, 2010
- Lexicon article "Pleyel, Marie" by the Sophie Drinker Institute
Individual evidence
- ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Marie Moke-Pleyel
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Moke-Pleyel, Marie |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Moke-Pleyel, Marie Félicité Denise (full name); Moke, Marie (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Franco-Belgian pianist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 14, 1811 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris |
| DATE OF DEATH | March 30, 1875 |
| Place of death | Saint-Josse-ten-Noode near Brussels |